PM Modi To Visit Gujarat On October 22, To Launch Several Projects

PM Modi's Gujarat visit on October 22 will be his third visit to the state this month. (PTI)

AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Gujarat on October 22 for the third time this month, where he will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for a number of projects in Bhavnagar and Vadodara districts.

PM Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the Rs. 615 crore roll-on roll-off ferry service between Ghogha in Bhavnagar district and Dahej in Bharuch in the Gulf of Cambay.

The prime minister had called ferry service his "dream project" while addressing a gathering at Gandhinagar on Monday.

He will address a gathering in Ghogha and undertake a journey to Dahej from Ghogha on the ferry. From Dahej, he will leave for Vadodara, where he is scheduled to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for projects worth over Rs. 1,140 crore.

Ajay Bhadoo, Chief Executive Officer of Gujarat Maritime Board, which is executing the ro-ro project, said the first phase of the service to be inaugurated by Modi on Sunday is meant for passengers.

In the second phase, which would be ready in two months, cars can also be carried between the two towns.

"It is a complex project which involves complicated marine structure of the Gulf of Cambay, on which it is built.

The service reduces the distance between the two towns from 310 kilometres by road to 30 kilometres which can be covered in 1 hour," Mr Bhadoo said.

PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the project in January 2012, when he was the chief minister of Gujarat.